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the carolina watcliman vol ix.â€”thim series salisbury n c apeil 11 1878 no 25 mr vebxox n c march lii 1s78 peak watchmax : â€” heskxl directed ihe farmer to regulate iln time of sowing ami hat ve-t by the rising and setting of the pleiades a constellation in the heav ii mentioned in ihe book of lob coiu inoiilv known as the seven stars and situated in the neck of the astronomical figure taurus the romans called them yertjillac from rer spring because of iheir rising about the vernal equinox i c the 21st of march the ancients had ob \ gerved coven stars in the pleiades six are now perceptible the seventh is said to have disappeared at the siege of troy ovid the roman poet says it was so af fected at the fate of that unfortunate cry i us from grief to cover ils face with its hand in this group wherein seven stars formerly aro reported to have appeared mnl biuce only six herschelps telescopic vision soon observed and enumerated seventy ! seven stars invell in thai brulla.nl luster and tin sight nil i 1 once j â– t ench from each - .- far uu each ol hi m troui earth anil . \- rj star from every ther bams > -,.-,â– .â– it - i-.-u-.t i-'r.ini the profound of 1 1 < â– i \ > * : i â– i rn in thought keen piercing rays ijfh thi vol i revenlln - to the sense - and v ! is unnumbered . take l tie glass i ii ii skies the opening skies pourdow n â– thick showers of sparkling lire owdc i i hi ii i n ri ,,"!:- su remote thai iheir Â»Â« 1ft b aims the swiftest thins that ii â€” | llave i i.n cl l'i i centuries in their tligui to earth in the poetic imagery of job no phrase i more delightfully remembered than j the sweet influences of pleiades it t-alls to mind pictures of bursting buds ' ami fresh green pastures of low ing herds nud whistling farmer's boys of rural sights and sounds f every description belonging to the lovely spring-time and the harvest moon is seen majestically iloating over the reapers returning gladly homeward laden with their sheaves no wonder the heathen niythologists deified these stats into seven sweet sis i tii descendants of the immortal gods changed into a group of celesl ial statuary lookiug down upon us with bright eyes ami broken hearts from iheir lofty home tin early men in .!â€¢ ifying the flowers of nature followed the same tendency whieh in modern times leads the merely scieii titic mind to interpose as much of visible ! cause and elfeect or as many secondary agencies h ]â€¢.> si ble between ourselves and a far-off personal deity hut how infinitely exalted equally above the hea then and scientist is the theology of the inspired poet which appeals directly to our bosoms with tlie natural and resist less ijuest ions : - !â– ' q01 a tongue in even tksw ll li man and u >.,.-, him to he n ise '.'" engrossed with the ordinary pursuits of life il is but rarely thai we bestow at tention upon those most stupendous works of the almighty the sun the planets the myraids of stars of which the bare contemplation excites us to wonder aud to worship the accidental awakening of our attention towards them '>;â– the above peculiar scriptural allusion and the cm iou grouping of seven of i heir number should be seized upon by us to acquire thu particular knowledge relating to the objects by which the spirit of inquiiy \ as roused thus wc may form a habit of attention to our life-long amusement and instruc tion and not go through the world blind a the ion images to which the idolater prostrates himself lint it is a habit to he acquired by long and steady cultiva tion no man is lorn w ith it in him when the business ofthe day is over why instead of counting gain aud lo es laying fresh plans or harra ing ourselves with feverish memories of the few pie ced inn hours do we not retire within our selves to commune with l>iit .' why do we not forget for a time life's corroding cares can we never look upward .' xi hi ii i tie time lo v it li - 1 i .. â€¢â€¢::-, in . r toll ei iin l*lelaÂ»lc-s or catcli the mil moon's earliest -:. in tint i rings into tlie in sick mind all we have loved and lefi behind kill such sad watching however sweet ly painted by montgomery is more poet ical and fanciful than is good for the health of the intellect let us rather look up aud exclaim with the inspired poet : canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bauds of < irion .'" reflection upou the omnipotence of god is always good for iim and the free indulgence of a morbid and inventive imagination is not trust iu bid is the very essence of job's poetry the mild twinkle of the pleiades is lo the splendors of orion and the great con stellations of the zodiac whal ',',,,' humble violets are to the majestic wull-flowcrs ami roses iu the garden the modest beauty which contrasts nicely with their gaudiuess and gives a tasteful and be witching air to the whole parterre al sea they remind the sailor of the soft eyed wife and little ones watching for his return ou the blissful short s of homo and native laud the seven sisters tire em blematic of modest womanhood in their sweet influences h is uot woman the index to tlie whole volume of our ideas of beauty in star and flowers and all the other objects ofthe whole creation which we admire for their loveliness '.' there is not a jewel in the crow n ol'nig t , not a diamond ou the brow of princes not a flower in the gardens ofthe orient which we might behold without refer ring it to its appropriate likeness in some heart-enshrined female lace and form pleasant for us indeed would it be if as in ancient eden the lowers never laded the luminaries above shone with perennial lustre and the human beings we love had the forms of immortality whatever we here admire must lade and above the stars alone can we find the realization of our loves ami hopes j p ii pope leo has been dealiug with the tram question very sensibly . '! he death of a pope has unually att'ored au oppor tunity for plundering his effects at the vatican and on the acei ssion ot a new pope the army of uicndicauta lave uni formly beseiged him with their appeals and custom has given a sort of prescrip tive claim upon his generosity it is stated that when this a my ot beggars laid siege to the yati.au after the corona tion of pope leo he asked what the assem blage meant on being told what ii was he sent word that it was cod's will that mau should earn his daily bread iu the sweat of his brow aud the crowd dis persed mt vebxox n c march 25th 1876 dear watchman the first sign of a peaceable man is that he devotes all his time to his own calling he minds his own business 1 too closely to have leisure either to tattle himself or to give car to idle gossip people meddling with mat ters whieh do not concern thein produces nearly all the discord and quarrelling and lighting and litigation in this unhappy world yet it is amazing how they will keep it up the trade i mean of knowing and telling all they can hear and more about othei folks lean account for it in uo other way than that the enemy of man kind is always loose and always busy in the hearts of meu since the curse fell upon adam ; and that the ignorant va cant minds must have food of some sort even i hough it bo filthy scandals aud un reasonable liars of all cowards the quarrelsome slander ous man is the meanest when the liourof aclnal errttd arrives spending himself continually uponinsignificantcoutentions he has no strength in reserve for occa sions of momentous importance when divine honor and human rights are at stake no man that is brave and honest iu public life is a churl among his neigh bors and around the fireside too dear be holds his interest t.i neglect another's welfare or lii light luvade their interest like a lion lives on prey the kindle al the shadow of a wrong wrong he sustains with temper looks on heaven nor stoops '" t liiuk liis injurcr ins toe : naught out what wounds liis virtues wounds his peace when the soft airs of spring play around my brow and the daisies and violets are being turned under the farrows run across the fields when he robin is chirp ing on the fences by my side and the par tridge is piping for his partner in the thickets beyond ; when a sea of peach and cherry blossoms swaying agaiust the tlf']i back-ground of woodland green and meadow grass salutes my eye at every turn i cannot help repeatiug to myself the old familiar lines â– where ei erj pro ipect ph a v -. a :; i tuily man 1 \ he happier fur is he who with horse and plow traverses the lonely corn-field un disturbed by busy-bodies unconscious of slanderers bothered by nobody and independent ofthe public smile or frown than the occupant of any public position â€” fated to be the butt for the ridicule and the nialacc of every fool and liar hotter a crusl ot bread and one's own wide acres wiih peace nud quiet than luxuries and the spoils of office with brawling and un easiness and dependence upon the capri ces of the giddy crowd tityrus under the beech tree enjoys what augustus in the palace longs for peace my grandmother had a favorite book il was hervey's meditations in a gar ilen 1 loved to take that volume when 1 was a child and go away off from the house and lie down on a mossy bank be neath a row of aspens aud cedars and there rend and wish that all men were like william hervcy harmless medita tive christian kiud what neighbors ; and friends they would make ! what a : blissful happy world it would be weary of contention and worn out with bootless efforts the society of such men would be flytaiini to the every-day traveller along the rugged pathway of life li was upon the bosom of such souls as 'â– these that thopoetcowper like a"strick ' en ih er tested his living head : and like the swan emitted the sweetest notes of song when about to deparj forever amid i tin shades of the retired village uf gluey : the soothing inlluence of mrs urwin aud , other kind aud judicious friends saved to us the immortal productions he would i never have written but for their presence and encouragement ile likened liis spirit to a harp shattered by rough hauls but toned at intervals by love to something of its original music redeemed by kind ness for a brief glimmering space to si uk away again into darkness despair and death you may say that this man was diseased and that morbid sensitiveness was his complaint that he ought to have had more courage and not looked on the dark side ; and a lot more of stereotyped stuff but i say for god's sake don't judge what your nature and temperament incapacitate you from judging and hat in no one by thought word or deed â€” we know not how thoughtlessness alone may wound e p 11 warning to american workmen the united states consul at buenos ay res in a recent report states : i have been ill receipt oi frequent letters since 1 have beeu here asking iu regard to the conditions aud prospects of labor iu this couutry 1 would uot advise anybody to come here with a view to bettering his condition they cannot expect to find employment of any kind every variety of manual and mechanical labor is suffer ing with the general depression of busi ness and establishments requiring skill ed labor are reducing rather than increas ing the number of their employees if persons will come here in search of work they should bring sullicient mouey with them to pay their return expenses every few days the consulate is visited by dis tressed americans who having been in duced to come out here have been sadly disappointed upon their arrival to find no opportunity to earn a livelihood : thus finding themselves without means cither to live here or return home they become objects of charity it will appear from the tenor of this as from other similar communications from our consuls iu different parts of the world that our country is not the only one suf fering from hard times and that it is very little use for an american workinginan to leave his country in the hopes of bettering ni condition tin democracy of abbeville s c led off ou lhe i ith in opening the canvass for 1678 tiny fully aud heartily endorse the course of gov hampton and recom mend his nomination for re-election no undoing a little girl sat trying to pick out a seam that she had sewed together wrong her chubby fingers picked at the thread that would break leavyig the end hidden i somewhere among the stitches tlmt she i had labored so wearily to make short aud close ; and though the thread came out yet the needle-holes remained shewiu'g just how the seam had been sewed ; and with tears iu her eyes she cried 0 mam ma i cannot undo it !" poor little girl ! you are learning one of the saddest lessons there is the desire of undoing what can never be undone gives us more trouble than all the doings of busy life ; and because we know this so well our hearts often ache for tho boys and gills we see doing the things they wish so earnestly by and by to undo is there any of you old enough to read this who never laid your head ou your pillow at night with a weary ache all i through you as you could not shut out the unkind words you have spoken to father mother brother or sister "? older boys and girls have felt keener heart-aches for graver faults you all know something of this desire to undo and sorrow that you cannot it is a very sad picture ; and now where is the bright side 1 right here lit tie boys and girls big boys and girls let us try to do a thing the first time so we will never wish to undo it we don't care to undo the words of kindness we spoke to our classmates when they failed in spel ling or cried because they could not re member how many seven times eight were ; nor would we take back lhe apple we gave a poor beggar-boy nor tiusaw the wood we sawed for mamma this morning j though our arms have ached all day for ! it was a nice kind of ache that we enjoy i ed no we never wish to undo a thing that ! is done right then how much better it is and how much trouble we stive out selves if we do a thing right at first some times we don't know what is right tt we can always ask if the little girl had asked her mother aboul the scam she was sewing and done it sis she was told she would have been saved the trouble of picking it out we can ask our friends and above all we can ask our heavenly father ho never lead us wrong and any thing we du under his guidance we shall never wish to undo the mii'llf â€” sm a harvest of grime dining the last week a number of cases oi crimes of the most hocking character have either occurred or been developed or have been brought home to the perpe trators some by confession thomas graham a dissolute young man employ ed by renjaiuiu hunter of camden n j lias made a confession which implicates both himself aud his employer iu the mur der of james m armstrong at thai city a few weeks ago armstrong owed hunter money and the latter by killing him hop ed to obiain i sum which would be forth coming on a life insurance policy hun ter hired graham to do the deed and then assisted iu its execution the deed was one of the most revolting ever recorded not the least shocking of the occurrences of the week is the lynching ofa murderer at wheeling va on sunday morning by a large baud of armed men who forci bly took him from the officer iu charge himself had killed two women and a babe and after dragging him nearly a mile by a rope around his neck hung him to a tree the account states that the lynch ers acted like so many devils the man out of pure spite other equally shock ing eases have occurred but we do not even attempt to enumerate them much less to give details no thoughtful mind can fail to ask what are we coming to .' the frequency of all sorts of fearful crimes is absolutely alarming not merely in regard to per sonal safety but for the future of society this great outbreak of shocking oecur ances is not peculiar to this country it is taking place all over the world aud it is a matter for philanthropist and the chris tians carefully to consider so far as we are concerned one thing is certain : we must have in this country a more prompt and rigid administration of law ; violators of law must be prosecuted and punished more surely and mure swiftly or we shall be overwhelmed with a hood of crime we have often maintained tlmt sympathy for criminals is outrunning sympathy for society and a regard for justice and we are now reaping the fruits of tiiis mis placed tenderness in a harvest of crime not until we have a reign of justice shall we have a reign of law and order or even of mercy there is no mercy or kindness in dealing leniently with those who set at defiance the laws of god and of man governor mcclellau is anxious to be the democratic candidate for president ! in isso we have no idea that either â– tilden or mcclellau will be again plaee i on the track the democrats will de maud fresh hordes whose plight is good ( and whose legs have not been strained by ! previous races as the augusta chronicle ,' says referring to gen mcclellau : he was so badly stove up in the nice of 1s(>4 that he is only lit to enter short races for small parses the democracy will take a nag whose record is good whose wiiid is perfect and who has never been beaten ciiaui.otte n c march 30th 1878 to the raleigh news i am glad that you are arousiug our fanners on the stock law for it is of great er importance to north carolina thau auy measure that is agitating the public mind mecklenburg was the first to adopt the stock law and 1 suppose many of your subscribers would like to hear of the strug gle and the triumph of the cause in this county as the same arguments will be used agaiust the law iu other counties 1 will give thein as i write you a short history of the operation of the law about the year 1601 or 1870 many of the most intelligent fanners commenced to agitate the question converts were rapidly made and during the winter of 137*2 and 1873 an act was passed which j to become a law had to be ratified by the people then came the tug of war the opponents of the law were led by some of our best citizens and the canvass was conducted with great vigor the great majority of the whites in the south ern townships were in favor of the law while in the city of charlotte aud the north ern townships the opposition was tho strongest all the freedmen of both sec tions were opposed to tho law all classes admitted that the saving in the expense of fencing would be from 23 to 75 per cent and that the rails now on baud would last from <> to kl years the opposition contended that fences as they then stood were a necessary evil that if the law was adopted no one would be able to raise stock iu this county that we would have to buy all our bacon beef mutton c and that even butter would be brought here and sold to our far mers the tricks of politicians were introduc ed and the cry of the king the king was raise the ring was to buy at a nominal price all the stock of poor men and all stock ofthe opposition that they were unable to keep the freedmen were very much excited they could only see iu the law evil for them their stock wrested from them or standing in pens starving and dying ami to add to their misery u reverend wag circulated a re port among them that the snakes would over-run the land put u the hogs and the woods will get full of them you know hogs eat snake and that is what keeps them dowu 1 put up the hogs and iu a 1'v.w years snakes will be thicker than leaves those of a religious turn of mind argued that cod made grass to grow wild expressly for stock and if the stock was penned how could they get to it to eat it forgetting that god said i'll shalt not covet anything that is i thy neighbor's the friends of the law urged that it was a relic of slavery that free labor could not stand such au onerous tax and gave estimates of the probable amount that would be saved e c the northern men anil foreigners whether here a.s far mers miners or mechanics joined with the friends of the stock law and urged its adoption they slated that the old sys tem was the great barrier to immigration c c the day of election came and the stock law was voted down by a large majority the law provided if the county refused to ratify it the trustees of any township could submit it to their township by giv ing thirty days no ieo the trustees of the southern townships immediately post ed the notices for an election the no tices were posted according to law but it is said tlie people did not talk much about it when the day of election came the law w its adopted and many many a freed niau wondered how it was they had , killed it in the county and got it in their ' township all went to work to adapt themselves to the new order of things and before a year had passed till opposi tion had died out and those who were op posed lo the measure became its strongest advocate the opposition iu the other townships finding that the stock law worked no injury but was really a great benefit commenced to agitate ihe ques tion again and one by one the townships , commenced to fall into line and in janu j ary 1s77 a public meeting was called to instruct our representatives in the leg islature to have passed a stock law for the entire county and to appoint a committee to draft the law and urge its passage all opposition having died out it was , not deemed necessary to submit it to a vote ofthe people and in order to show to the legislature tltat ii was not a peti tion with 3,400 signatures attached to it , was sent with the copy oi the bill that was desired to be passed the petition was gotteu up in a week and many more names could have been had if it had been considered necessary the law was passed and went into ef fect april 10th and so well are our entire people pleased with it that i do uot kuow a ingle person who is now opposed to it the people of the other counties of this state are like tha people of this county thev want to see before they believe aud if we had only one enterprising township in each county to let theothers see how it act il would not be two years before the law would be geueral cotton planters are benefited more than j thau any other class ot tanners cotton j fields are worked from january to janu ary and never make pasture the same laud being used year after year for cotton the fence around ir under the old system was so much labor wasted to insure the purity of blooded stock the stock law is indispensable already much attention is beiug paid to blooded stock in this county we can boast of as fine berkshire as america can produce and one of our enterprising farmers re ceived a pair pf berkshires last fall direct from england we have thoroughbred south downs and merinos and cattle that will compare with any east of the blue grass region our farmers are in better condition to-day than they have beeu since the war while the farmers ! of other counties are making rails build ing and repairing fences our farmers are making compost and it requires no math ematician to calculate which will yield the greatest return as well might the khedive of egypt attempt to build pyramids that will equal those that tell of labor uurecompeused in the days of the pharaohs as for our peo ple to live like the slave owners before the war north carolina must leave the old ruts of slave labor and enter the road of free labor mecklenburg proud ofthe position she has taken invites her sisters to come and see her in her new dress see her improv ed agriculture her improved stock and her contented citizens and when they see they will believe and will go and do like wise s b alexaxdek an escaped penitentiary con victâ€”he spends several months in lenoir last saturday night chief of police john g crier of greenville s c passed through town cu route to ore knob ashe county in search of mat evans an es caped negro penitentiary convict the chief was accompanied from here by mr granville presuell of this place about two years ago a disastrous fire occurred at granville s c and with several other negroes mat was arrested for the crime tried and convicted and senten ced to the penitentiary for life welearn that the convicted negroes belonged to a gang of thieves a nil house-bu rners and that mat evans was their leader those who eluded arrest or escaped conviction made up a purse of eighty dollars with which they bribed the guard tind mat made his escape about four months since early in december last he appeared ix lexoik where he rented a shop and worked at shoe-making while here he went by the name of jack or frank hill he called at this office several times aud asked for newspapers particularly south carolina papers he seemed very much interested in the liberiau movement and made fre quent enquiries about it doubtless his object was to remain as near charleston as he thought was safe and when the time arrived to take passage on the steam er lor liberia he represented himself as having lived in richmond ya just prior to the war aud said he was a native of alexandria va lie is a dark burly looking negro seems to be shrewd and cunning and spent much of his time here in gambling with other negroes he seem ed to be interested iu the law * of our state as he went to a prominent gentleman in town to borrow law books about three weeks ago he left here in company with several negroes for ore knob ashe county we learn that he was ipiite a politician iu south carolina and at one time was a member of the legislature the pursuers returned tuesday with their prisoner he was taken to hickory where they took the train for south caro lina â€” lenoir topic mr gladstone iu an article which he contributed to the x in el re nth century for march makes the following severe though mildly expressed reflections on ihe course of the british ministry in the eastern troubles by which they have alienated many if not quite every nation in europe : i am selfish enough to hope in the interest of my country that in the ap proaching conference or congress we may have and may use an opportunity to ac quire the goodwill of somebody by some body 1 mean some nation and uot merely some government we have i fear for the moment profoundly alienated if not exasperated eighty millions of russians we have repelled and 1 fear estranged twenty millions of christians iu the turk ish empire we seemed to have passed rapidly and not wj thout cause into a like ill odor with its twenty millions of mohammedans it is not in france italy or germany thai we have made any con quests of affection to make up for such great defaults nor is it in austria where every slav is with tho first twenty mil lions and every magyar with the second where isall this to stop neither in persoual nor in national life will self glorification supply the place of general respect or feed the hunger of the heart rich and strong we are : but im people s rich enough to disregard the priceless value of human sympathies hon beverly douglass of va has dis graced himself by appearing in the house in a beastlj state of intoxication it is not improbable he wiil be expelled froin congress noting the fall of russian bonds in european markets in consequence of the warlike attitude of england and the rival ry of the two powers in providing them selves with torpedoes the new york times is reminded that at the first outbreak of the paraguay-brazilian war an enter prising speculator offered his services to the paraguayan government for a hand some consideration in blocking the ad vance of the brazilian fleet upon the rivers by means of torpedoes this done he instantly sent word to his partner in new york to come down at once and oiler his services to brazil for the removal of the tor i>edoes whose whereabouts was to be indicated by a signal in this way says the times the one partner continued to plant them aud the other to pull them up during the whole of the four years war after which those enterprising yankees having earned upwards of 100,000 by their united exertions wound up by sell ing the still nnexploded torpedoes to the government of nicaragua hon thomas ashe from the wadesboro argus we notice that a correspondent of the raleigh observer nominates this gentle man for the place of chief justice mak ing some very just remarks as to his ill ness and the duty of the people to put men of his character in responsible posi tions we endorse all that was said by the correspondent and feel sure the peo ple will not be disappointed if they choose to entrust mr ashe with the duties of this high office another correspondent of the observer on the next day says that mr ashe is not an aspirant for this office tis true he is not an aspirant in the ordinary seuse ofthe term for he is not seeking the oilice ami recommending himself for it : lit is not electioneering for the plaee because he thinks it unbecoming so to do aud that office should'seek the man and not man tho ollice he believes the people of north carolina should choose for them selves the men who shall occupy the high places in their gift we venture to say that mr ashe will yield to the voice of the people iu convention and take the place assigned him iu the coming cam paign a leech barometer to the editor of tlie sceiitijic american .* the following is a simple way of making a leech barometer takeau eight ounce phial and put in it three gills of water and ahealthy leech changing the water iu sum mer onee a week and in winter once a fortnight if the weather is to be line the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass and coiled together i a spiral form if rain may be expected it will creep np to the top of its lodging anil rcmaiu there till the weather is settled if we are to have wind it will move through its habitation with amazing swiftness and seldom goes to rest till a high wind be gins if a remarkable storm or thunder and rain is to succeed the leach will re main for some days before almost con tinually out oi water and show great un easiness in violent throes and convulsive like motions in frost as in clear sum mer-like weather the leech lies constant ly at the bottom ; and in snow as in rainy weather it moves to the very mouth of the phial the top should be covered over v ith a piece of muslin emvix s cloutjiax south boston mass thos christians â€” when the smoke of the battle and the still denser smoke of di plomacy clears away we shall learn some thing of the new status of the turkish christians about which russia and thu en glish iron-clads have manifested so much concern these christians most of them merely nominal comprise no inconsidera ble part of the population ofthe late turk ish empire there were according to the nrost reliable accounts 2,050,000 an ans 1,130.000 greek churchmen 740,000 roman catholics and some 10.000 protest ants or a total ol 3,960,000 in the various parts of the empire they have suffered severely during the war as the provinces in which thev mostly reside have bi en overrun by both armies and the lawless hordes of irregulars attached to the turkish ibr i have inflicted all manner of outrages upon them their usually oppressive taxation has been increased while all busiri â€” h-i in a pretty much destroyed l he :.â€¢. aty <â€¢; â– it is understood pro ides for tin ir pi lion : bul u iless the humili ition to w . turkey has hern obliged to siibii ii â– a wholesome fear of retribution t al - -. i in the past will be little observed by her faithless government still il is to i.i honi rl that the near approach she ha nia le i ter national i uin will work a rei . thi r -.--â€¢!. and tha th chri itian may in deed bepr l cted standard vo'ii â– of p lencss \\ always pay to be polite as he >:â– amboat magenta wa descending the hudson river i ,-â€¢ week crowded with passengers an old gen le inau was unable to find a ear a young man noticing lai gave the old gentleman his chair and went forward two min utes afterwards the boiler blew up and the old gentleman was killed while the mau who had given up his 6t-at escaped an hut '. chicago tribune karth pclyerizers not the least valuable implement for a farmer or a gardener is a good t 1 - for smoothing and puh-erm.ig field which are to be planted or sown tfl-ofe are several methods of c&isrru&fng sin .. drag but one ofthe simplest is to fake two pi eco , of jofstr each with the front tml beveled like the front ofa sled run ner and then nail on phink across them on the under side letting the pfhn'ks run out by the joists a foot or more the may be of any sfee or weight flesh-able according to the anibmi of team to be used some farmers recommend to nail on two narrow strips npbli hid rice of the plank to collect the'lhmps of soff and drag then along until crushed or until all in equalities in the surfcci are tilled up wereeetiflrivceiveda cur and descrip tion of h pttlveri r with half d .-â€ž or ore cleats naihd upon :!.,- under side of the drag for more th roughly pulverizing and leveling the soil they are nailed on with the outer ends forward of the middle and thus tend to gather ;!â€žâ€¢ soil toward the middle and pfev'enl ridges being let af th sides ofthe dragwheu'in use either of the various styles arc ver useful ia their place and the cos of mak ing one is so small that i very farmer mould have one of his own they are sometimes used foi covering potatoes fodder corn or other crops and maj of ten pay for themselves iii a pin ic d a â€¢â– â– -*â€¢â– (, ti binds clear from stones they may be used at seeding time instead Â« ; a roller for fitting fields for the mowing m , chine or scythe er -' -'â€¢'' ''.' ' ' idea av ihe alleghanies lh re is a spri igso small thai lil ! '--" !; - : ' : â– imi .' da id drain it *â– â€¢'.'â– â– i -' ! als ' â– â– â– ul , isive :..'.., a l "' hills until it spreads onl in o the beautiful < hiio th nee ii a thousand miles leaving on its banks more than r bundn 1 \ ill ges and cities aud many thousand cultivated farms and bearing on its 1 osom more than half a thousand sti amboats then joiniug the mississippi stretches away some 1,500 miles more until it falls iuto the great emblem of eternity !; is oneofthc tributaries of the oceau which obedient only to cod shall roar until the ang i with own fool ou the sea and the other on the laud shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear that time dial be uo ion er so with moral influence !; is a rill a rivuh-t an ocean boundl s and faihom less as eternity yvcxderpul philanthropy a'i.ii bankruptcy after bankrupn is over the wires ; while hope is lying in a thousand breast - â€¢ while all di una i dil and no bow of promi â€¢ pans th '... . , r star of hope is visible abov lhe horizon we are co y told thai o ;, toi eign i redit must be niaintaitie i thi - disii ted philanthropy ihal foi â– . < its own kith and kin and is willing to rob the preseul and the future that the pounft of flesh be delivered is arrogating toitself.powi and privileges of v hich it will yet hi stri and with thongs will be driven fr nu the temple would uot a better way i main tain our credit abroad be have acne at home individual credit -'* te credit then national and foreign credit will come as a matter of course journal of agri culture a tele â– . ii fi nu si . john . florida dated march 31 says captain janes i eads has been here for the pa ! fev a,t -. making an examhial iou of th a view to ascertaining if the channel al the mouth can be improved lie ted a report yesterday . to the stating that with ti e jettj s .... from uvea v to tw nty-four fe l . r can be obtained a a cost of 1,750 governor hampton .- making a genuine ti iumphal journey tiirough ... sta â– of south ' arolina at i ver to u .... vil lage he is receivi i wi nou strations of delight !. olored peopie in some places ha turned out tu greet him at one town .....! . uau i opped in front of tli â€¢ . r d i>e said : â€¢â– â€¢- sin t i ue . \ ou stay â– we s had ti betti . lime nee sou's made : iovi ; uor i .. u v â€¢ had â€¢ efore seiuo tiie two citi ' . h i . determi nud to | i qui iii iau of lee :â– â– i he state of \ irginia milmore is to he tlie si ulptor 1 hi ton papers say thai thi . ue will be ol i.i .,..â€¢â– -.. .;- ... : â– -:â– : iat tile base and jn l i . â– > . - of virgi marble ..... ei â– , - . sculptor.l ..;..]' on the :.. ii -' ar thei ....-.:.-. plan ' .. depth such a i imc ha pened hai company to tea ai j i w.i try iug :.; l - to amuse tin tu wh .... li old daughti : -â– â€¢'- â€¢ '. piped o . ; iug to a b ild i did ' <'>â– â– '. maki i - . â– â– â– head for 1 '

the carolina watcliman vol ix.â€”thim series salisbury n c apeil 11 1878 no 25 mr vebxox n c march lii 1s78 peak watchmax : â€” heskxl directed ihe farmer to regulate iln time of sowing ami hat ve-t by the rising and setting of the pleiades a constellation in the heav ii mentioned in ihe book of lob coiu inoiilv known as the seven stars and situated in the neck of the astronomical figure taurus the romans called them yertjillac from rer spring because of iheir rising about the vernal equinox i c the 21st of march the ancients had ob \ gerved coven stars in the pleiades six are now perceptible the seventh is said to have disappeared at the siege of troy ovid the roman poet says it was so af fected at the fate of that unfortunate cry i us from grief to cover ils face with its hand in this group wherein seven stars formerly aro reported to have appeared mnl biuce only six herschelps telescopic vision soon observed and enumerated seventy ! seven stars invell in thai brulla.nl luster and tin sight nil i 1 once j â– t ench from each - .- far uu each ol hi m troui earth anil . \- rj star from every ther bams > -,.-,â– .â– it - i-.-u-.t i-'r.ini the profound of 1 1 < â– i \ > * : i â– i rn in thought keen piercing rays ijfh thi vol i revenlln - to the sense - and v ! is unnumbered . take l tie glass i ii ii skies the opening skies pourdow n â– thick showers of sparkling lire owdc i i hi ii i n ri ,,"!:- su remote thai iheir Â»Â« 1ft b aims the swiftest thins that ii â€” | llave i i.n cl l'i i centuries in their tligui to earth in the poetic imagery of job no phrase i more delightfully remembered than j the sweet influences of pleiades it t-alls to mind pictures of bursting buds ' ami fresh green pastures of low ing herds nud whistling farmer's boys of rural sights and sounds f every description belonging to the lovely spring-time and the harvest moon is seen majestically iloating over the reapers returning gladly homeward laden with their sheaves no wonder the heathen niythologists deified these stats into seven sweet sis i tii descendants of the immortal gods changed into a group of celesl ial statuary lookiug down upon us with bright eyes ami broken hearts from iheir lofty home tin early men in .!â€¢ ifying the flowers of nature followed the same tendency whieh in modern times leads the merely scieii titic mind to interpose as much of visible ! cause and elfeect or as many secondary agencies h ]â€¢.> si ble between ourselves and a far-off personal deity hut how infinitely exalted equally above the hea then and scientist is the theology of the inspired poet which appeals directly to our bosoms with tlie natural and resist less ijuest ions : - !â– ' q01 a tongue in even tksw ll li man and u >.,.-, him to he n ise '.'" engrossed with the ordinary pursuits of life il is but rarely thai we bestow at tention upon those most stupendous works of the almighty the sun the planets the myraids of stars of which the bare contemplation excites us to wonder aud to worship the accidental awakening of our attention towards them '>;â– the above peculiar scriptural allusion and the cm iou grouping of seven of i heir number should be seized upon by us to acquire thu particular knowledge relating to the objects by which the spirit of inquiiy \ as roused thus wc may form a habit of attention to our life-long amusement and instruc tion and not go through the world blind a the ion images to which the idolater prostrates himself lint it is a habit to he acquired by long and steady cultiva tion no man is lorn w ith it in him when the business ofthe day is over why instead of counting gain aud lo es laying fresh plans or harra ing ourselves with feverish memories of the few pie ced inn hours do we not retire within our selves to commune with l>iit .' why do we not forget for a time life's corroding cares can we never look upward .' xi hi ii i tie time lo v it li - 1 i .. â€¢â€¢::-, in . r toll ei iin l*lelaÂ»lc-s or catcli the mil moon's earliest -:. in tint i rings into tlie in sick mind all we have loved and lefi behind kill such sad watching however sweet ly painted by montgomery is more poet ical and fanciful than is good for the health of the intellect let us rather look up aud exclaim with the inspired poet : canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bauds of < irion .'" reflection upou the omnipotence of god is always good for iim and the free indulgence of a morbid and inventive imagination is not trust iu bid is the very essence of job's poetry the mild twinkle of the pleiades is lo the splendors of orion and the great con stellations of the zodiac whal ',',,,' humble violets are to the majestic wull-flowcrs ami roses iu the garden the modest beauty which contrasts nicely with their gaudiuess and gives a tasteful and be witching air to the whole parterre al sea they remind the sailor of the soft eyed wife and little ones watching for his return ou the blissful short s of homo and native laud the seven sisters tire em blematic of modest womanhood in their sweet influences h is uot woman the index to tlie whole volume of our ideas of beauty in star and flowers and all the other objects ofthe whole creation which we admire for their loveliness '.' there is not a jewel in the crow n ol'nig t , not a diamond ou the brow of princes not a flower in the gardens ofthe orient which we might behold without refer ring it to its appropriate likeness in some heart-enshrined female lace and form pleasant for us indeed would it be if as in ancient eden the lowers never laded the luminaries above shone with perennial lustre and the human beings we love had the forms of immortality whatever we here admire must lade and above the stars alone can we find the realization of our loves ami hopes j p ii pope leo has been dealiug with the tram question very sensibly . '! he death of a pope has unually att'ored au oppor tunity for plundering his effects at the vatican and on the acei ssion ot a new pope the army of uicndicauta lave uni formly beseiged him with their appeals and custom has given a sort of prescrip tive claim upon his generosity it is stated that when this a my ot beggars laid siege to the yati.au after the corona tion of pope leo he asked what the assem blage meant on being told what ii was he sent word that it was cod's will that mau should earn his daily bread iu the sweat of his brow aud the crowd dis persed mt vebxox n c march 25th 1876 dear watchman the first sign of a peaceable man is that he devotes all his time to his own calling he minds his own business 1 too closely to have leisure either to tattle himself or to give car to idle gossip people meddling with mat ters whieh do not concern thein produces nearly all the discord and quarrelling and lighting and litigation in this unhappy world yet it is amazing how they will keep it up the trade i mean of knowing and telling all they can hear and more about othei folks lean account for it in uo other way than that the enemy of man kind is always loose and always busy in the hearts of meu since the curse fell upon adam ; and that the ignorant va cant minds must have food of some sort even i hough it bo filthy scandals aud un reasonable liars of all cowards the quarrelsome slander ous man is the meanest when the liourof aclnal errttd arrives spending himself continually uponinsignificantcoutentions he has no strength in reserve for occa sions of momentous importance when divine honor and human rights are at stake no man that is brave and honest iu public life is a churl among his neigh bors and around the fireside too dear be holds his interest t.i neglect another's welfare or lii light luvade their interest like a lion lives on prey the kindle al the shadow of a wrong wrong he sustains with temper looks on heaven nor stoops '" t liiuk liis injurcr ins toe : naught out what wounds liis virtues wounds his peace when the soft airs of spring play around my brow and the daisies and violets are being turned under the farrows run across the fields when he robin is chirp ing on the fences by my side and the par tridge is piping for his partner in the thickets beyond ; when a sea of peach and cherry blossoms swaying agaiust the tlf']i back-ground of woodland green and meadow grass salutes my eye at every turn i cannot help repeatiug to myself the old familiar lines â– where ei erj pro ipect ph a v -. a :; i tuily man 1 \ he happier fur is he who with horse and plow traverses the lonely corn-field un disturbed by busy-bodies unconscious of slanderers bothered by nobody and independent ofthe public smile or frown than the occupant of any public position â€” fated to be the butt for the ridicule and the nialacc of every fool and liar hotter a crusl ot bread and one's own wide acres wiih peace nud quiet than luxuries and the spoils of office with brawling and un easiness and dependence upon the capri ces of the giddy crowd tityrus under the beech tree enjoys what augustus in the palace longs for peace my grandmother had a favorite book il was hervey's meditations in a gar ilen 1 loved to take that volume when 1 was a child and go away off from the house and lie down on a mossy bank be neath a row of aspens aud cedars and there rend and wish that all men were like william hervcy harmless medita tive christian kiud what neighbors ; and friends they would make ! what a : blissful happy world it would be weary of contention and worn out with bootless efforts the society of such men would be flytaiini to the every-day traveller along the rugged pathway of life li was upon the bosom of such souls as 'â– these that thopoetcowper like a"strick ' en ih er tested his living head : and like the swan emitted the sweetest notes of song when about to deparj forever amid i tin shades of the retired village uf gluey : the soothing inlluence of mrs urwin aud , other kind aud judicious friends saved to us the immortal productions he would i never have written but for their presence and encouragement ile likened liis spirit to a harp shattered by rough hauls but toned at intervals by love to something of its original music redeemed by kind ness for a brief glimmering space to si uk away again into darkness despair and death you may say that this man was diseased and that morbid sensitiveness was his complaint that he ought to have had more courage and not looked on the dark side ; and a lot more of stereotyped stuff but i say for god's sake don't judge what your nature and temperament incapacitate you from judging and hat in no one by thought word or deed â€” we know not how thoughtlessness alone may wound e p 11 warning to american workmen the united states consul at buenos ay res in a recent report states : i have been ill receipt oi frequent letters since 1 have beeu here asking iu regard to the conditions aud prospects of labor iu this couutry 1 would uot advise anybody to come here with a view to bettering his condition they cannot expect to find employment of any kind every variety of manual and mechanical labor is suffer ing with the general depression of busi ness and establishments requiring skill ed labor are reducing rather than increas ing the number of their employees if persons will come here in search of work they should bring sullicient mouey with them to pay their return expenses every few days the consulate is visited by dis tressed americans who having been in duced to come out here have been sadly disappointed upon their arrival to find no opportunity to earn a livelihood : thus finding themselves without means cither to live here or return home they become objects of charity it will appear from the tenor of this as from other similar communications from our consuls iu different parts of the world that our country is not the only one suf fering from hard times and that it is very little use for an american workinginan to leave his country in the hopes of bettering ni condition tin democracy of abbeville s c led off ou lhe i ith in opening the canvass for 1678 tiny fully aud heartily endorse the course of gov hampton and recom mend his nomination for re-election no undoing a little girl sat trying to pick out a seam that she had sewed together wrong her chubby fingers picked at the thread that would break leavyig the end hidden i somewhere among the stitches tlmt she i had labored so wearily to make short aud close ; and though the thread came out yet the needle-holes remained shewiu'g just how the seam had been sewed ; and with tears iu her eyes she cried 0 mam ma i cannot undo it !" poor little girl ! you are learning one of the saddest lessons there is the desire of undoing what can never be undone gives us more trouble than all the doings of busy life ; and because we know this so well our hearts often ache for tho boys and gills we see doing the things they wish so earnestly by and by to undo is there any of you old enough to read this who never laid your head ou your pillow at night with a weary ache all i through you as you could not shut out the unkind words you have spoken to father mother brother or sister "? older boys and girls have felt keener heart-aches for graver faults you all know something of this desire to undo and sorrow that you cannot it is a very sad picture ; and now where is the bright side 1 right here lit tie boys and girls big boys and girls let us try to do a thing the first time so we will never wish to undo it we don't care to undo the words of kindness we spoke to our classmates when they failed in spel ling or cried because they could not re member how many seven times eight were ; nor would we take back lhe apple we gave a poor beggar-boy nor tiusaw the wood we sawed for mamma this morning j though our arms have ached all day for ! it was a nice kind of ache that we enjoy i ed no we never wish to undo a thing that ! is done right then how much better it is and how much trouble we stive out selves if we do a thing right at first some times we don't know what is right tt we can always ask if the little girl had asked her mother aboul the scam she was sewing and done it sis she was told she would have been saved the trouble of picking it out we can ask our friends and above all we can ask our heavenly father ho never lead us wrong and any thing we du under his guidance we shall never wish to undo the mii'llf â€” sm a harvest of grime dining the last week a number of cases oi crimes of the most hocking character have either occurred or been developed or have been brought home to the perpe trators some by confession thomas graham a dissolute young man employ ed by renjaiuiu hunter of camden n j lias made a confession which implicates both himself aud his employer iu the mur der of james m armstrong at thai city a few weeks ago armstrong owed hunter money and the latter by killing him hop ed to obiain i sum which would be forth coming on a life insurance policy hun ter hired graham to do the deed and then assisted iu its execution the deed was one of the most revolting ever recorded not the least shocking of the occurrences of the week is the lynching ofa murderer at wheeling va on sunday morning by a large baud of armed men who forci bly took him from the officer iu charge himself had killed two women and a babe and after dragging him nearly a mile by a rope around his neck hung him to a tree the account states that the lynch ers acted like so many devils the man out of pure spite other equally shock ing eases have occurred but we do not even attempt to enumerate them much less to give details no thoughtful mind can fail to ask what are we coming to .' the frequency of all sorts of fearful crimes is absolutely alarming not merely in regard to per sonal safety but for the future of society this great outbreak of shocking oecur ances is not peculiar to this country it is taking place all over the world aud it is a matter for philanthropist and the chris tians carefully to consider so far as we are concerned one thing is certain : we must have in this country a more prompt and rigid administration of law ; violators of law must be prosecuted and punished more surely and mure swiftly or we shall be overwhelmed with a hood of crime we have often maintained tlmt sympathy for criminals is outrunning sympathy for society and a regard for justice and we are now reaping the fruits of tiiis mis placed tenderness in a harvest of crime not until we have a reign of justice shall we have a reign of law and order or even of mercy there is no mercy or kindness in dealing leniently with those who set at defiance the laws of god and of man governor mcclellau is anxious to be the democratic candidate for president ! in isso we have no idea that either â– tilden or mcclellau will be again plaee i on the track the democrats will de maud fresh hordes whose plight is good ( and whose legs have not been strained by ! previous races as the augusta chronicle ,' says referring to gen mcclellau : he was so badly stove up in the nice of 1s(>4 that he is only lit to enter short races for small parses the democracy will take a nag whose record is good whose wiiid is perfect and who has never been beaten ciiaui.otte n c march 30th 1878 to the raleigh news i am glad that you are arousiug our fanners on the stock law for it is of great er importance to north carolina thau auy measure that is agitating the public mind mecklenburg was the first to adopt the stock law and 1 suppose many of your subscribers would like to hear of the strug gle and the triumph of the cause in this county as the same arguments will be used agaiust the law iu other counties 1 will give thein as i write you a short history of the operation of the law about the year 1601 or 1870 many of the most intelligent fanners commenced to agitate the question converts were rapidly made and during the winter of 137*2 and 1873 an act was passed which j to become a law had to be ratified by the people then came the tug of war the opponents of the law were led by some of our best citizens and the canvass was conducted with great vigor the great majority of the whites in the south ern townships were in favor of the law while in the city of charlotte aud the north ern townships the opposition was tho strongest all the freedmen of both sec tions were opposed to tho law all classes admitted that the saving in the expense of fencing would be from 23 to 75 per cent and that the rails now on baud would last from <> to kl years the opposition contended that fences as they then stood were a necessary evil that if the law was adopted no one would be able to raise stock iu this county that we would have to buy all our bacon beef mutton c and that even butter would be brought here and sold to our far mers the tricks of politicians were introduc ed and the cry of the king the king was raise the ring was to buy at a nominal price all the stock of poor men and all stock ofthe opposition that they were unable to keep the freedmen were very much excited they could only see iu the law evil for them their stock wrested from them or standing in pens starving and dying ami to add to their misery u reverend wag circulated a re port among them that the snakes would over-run the land put u the hogs and the woods will get full of them you know hogs eat snake and that is what keeps them dowu 1 put up the hogs and iu a 1'v.w years snakes will be thicker than leaves those of a religious turn of mind argued that cod made grass to grow wild expressly for stock and if the stock was penned how could they get to it to eat it forgetting that god said i'll shalt not covet anything that is i thy neighbor's the friends of the law urged that it was a relic of slavery that free labor could not stand such au onerous tax and gave estimates of the probable amount that would be saved e c the northern men anil foreigners whether here a.s far mers miners or mechanics joined with the friends of the stock law and urged its adoption they slated that the old sys tem was the great barrier to immigration c c the day of election came and the stock law was voted down by a large majority the law provided if the county refused to ratify it the trustees of any township could submit it to their township by giv ing thirty days no ieo the trustees of the southern townships immediately post ed the notices for an election the no tices were posted according to law but it is said tlie people did not talk much about it when the day of election came the law w its adopted and many many a freed niau wondered how it was they had , killed it in the county and got it in their ' township all went to work to adapt themselves to the new order of things and before a year had passed till opposi tion had died out and those who were op posed lo the measure became its strongest advocate the opposition iu the other townships finding that the stock law worked no injury but was really a great benefit commenced to agitate ihe ques tion again and one by one the townships , commenced to fall into line and in janu j ary 1s77 a public meeting was called to instruct our representatives in the leg islature to have passed a stock law for the entire county and to appoint a committee to draft the law and urge its passage all opposition having died out it was , not deemed necessary to submit it to a vote ofthe people and in order to show to the legislature tltat ii was not a peti tion with 3,400 signatures attached to it , was sent with the copy oi the bill that was desired to be passed the petition was gotteu up in a week and many more names could have been had if it had been considered necessary the law was passed and went into ef fect april 10th and so well are our entire people pleased with it that i do uot kuow a ingle person who is now opposed to it the people of the other counties of this state are like tha people of this county thev want to see before they believe aud if we had only one enterprising township in each county to let theothers see how it act il would not be two years before the law would be geueral cotton planters are benefited more than j thau any other class ot tanners cotton j fields are worked from january to janu ary and never make pasture the same laud being used year after year for cotton the fence around ir under the old system was so much labor wasted to insure the purity of blooded stock the stock law is indispensable already much attention is beiug paid to blooded stock in this county we can boast of as fine berkshire as america can produce and one of our enterprising farmers re ceived a pair pf berkshires last fall direct from england we have thoroughbred south downs and merinos and cattle that will compare with any east of the blue grass region our farmers are in better condition to-day than they have beeu since the war while the farmers ! of other counties are making rails build ing and repairing fences our farmers are making compost and it requires no math ematician to calculate which will yield the greatest return as well might the khedive of egypt attempt to build pyramids that will equal those that tell of labor uurecompeused in the days of the pharaohs as for our peo ple to live like the slave owners before the war north carolina must leave the old ruts of slave labor and enter the road of free labor mecklenburg proud ofthe position she has taken invites her sisters to come and see her in her new dress see her improv ed agriculture her improved stock and her contented citizens and when they see they will believe and will go and do like wise s b alexaxdek an escaped penitentiary con victâ€”he spends several months in lenoir last saturday night chief of police john g crier of greenville s c passed through town cu route to ore knob ashe county in search of mat evans an es caped negro penitentiary convict the chief was accompanied from here by mr granville presuell of this place about two years ago a disastrous fire occurred at granville s c and with several other negroes mat was arrested for the crime tried and convicted and senten ced to the penitentiary for life welearn that the convicted negroes belonged to a gang of thieves a nil house-bu rners and that mat evans was their leader those who eluded arrest or escaped conviction made up a purse of eighty dollars with which they bribed the guard tind mat made his escape about four months since early in december last he appeared ix lexoik where he rented a shop and worked at shoe-making while here he went by the name of jack or frank hill he called at this office several times aud asked for newspapers particularly south carolina papers he seemed very much interested in the liberiau movement and made fre quent enquiries about it doubtless his object was to remain as near charleston as he thought was safe and when the time arrived to take passage on the steam er lor liberia he represented himself as having lived in richmond ya just prior to the war aud said he was a native of alexandria va lie is a dark burly looking negro seems to be shrewd and cunning and spent much of his time here in gambling with other negroes he seem ed to be interested iu the law * of our state as he went to a prominent gentleman in town to borrow law books about three weeks ago he left here in company with several negroes for ore knob ashe county we learn that he was ipiite a politician iu south carolina and at one time was a member of the legislature the pursuers returned tuesday with their prisoner he was taken to hickory where they took the train for south caro lina â€” lenoir topic mr gladstone iu an article which he contributed to the x in el re nth century for march makes the following severe though mildly expressed reflections on ihe course of the british ministry in the eastern troubles by which they have alienated many if not quite every nation in europe : i am selfish enough to hope in the interest of my country that in the ap proaching conference or congress we may have and may use an opportunity to ac quire the goodwill of somebody by some body 1 mean some nation and uot merely some government we have i fear for the moment profoundly alienated if not exasperated eighty millions of russians we have repelled and 1 fear estranged twenty millions of christians iu the turk ish empire we seemed to have passed rapidly and not wj thout cause into a like ill odor with its twenty millions of mohammedans it is not in france italy or germany thai we have made any con quests of affection to make up for such great defaults nor is it in austria where every slav is with tho first twenty mil lions and every magyar with the second where isall this to stop neither in persoual nor in national life will self glorification supply the place of general respect or feed the hunger of the heart rich and strong we are : but im people s rich enough to disregard the priceless value of human sympathies hon beverly douglass of va has dis graced himself by appearing in the house in a beastlj state of intoxication it is not improbable he wiil be expelled froin congress noting the fall of russian bonds in european markets in consequence of the warlike attitude of england and the rival ry of the two powers in providing them selves with torpedoes the new york times is reminded that at the first outbreak of the paraguay-brazilian war an enter prising speculator offered his services to the paraguayan government for a hand some consideration in blocking the ad vance of the brazilian fleet upon the rivers by means of torpedoes this done he instantly sent word to his partner in new york to come down at once and oiler his services to brazil for the removal of the tor i>edoes whose whereabouts was to be indicated by a signal in this way says the times the one partner continued to plant them aud the other to pull them up during the whole of the four years war after which those enterprising yankees having earned upwards of 100,000 by their united exertions wound up by sell ing the still nnexploded torpedoes to the government of nicaragua hon thomas ashe from the wadesboro argus we notice that a correspondent of the raleigh observer nominates this gentle man for the place of chief justice mak ing some very just remarks as to his ill ness and the duty of the people to put men of his character in responsible posi tions we endorse all that was said by the correspondent and feel sure the peo ple will not be disappointed if they choose to entrust mr ashe with the duties of this high office another correspondent of the observer on the next day says that mr ashe is not an aspirant for this office tis true he is not an aspirant in the ordinary seuse ofthe term for he is not seeking the oilice ami recommending himself for it : lit is not electioneering for the plaee because he thinks it unbecoming so to do aud that office should'seek the man and not man tho ollice he believes the people of north carolina should choose for them selves the men who shall occupy the high places in their gift we venture to say that mr ashe will yield to the voice of the people iu convention and take the place assigned him iu the coming cam paign a leech barometer to the editor of tlie sceiitijic american .* the following is a simple way of making a leech barometer takeau eight ounce phial and put in it three gills of water and ahealthy leech changing the water iu sum mer onee a week and in winter once a fortnight if the weather is to be line the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass and coiled together i a spiral form if rain may be expected it will creep np to the top of its lodging anil rcmaiu there till the weather is settled if we are to have wind it will move through its habitation with amazing swiftness and seldom goes to rest till a high wind be gins if a remarkable storm or thunder and rain is to succeed the leach will re main for some days before almost con tinually out oi water and show great un easiness in violent throes and convulsive like motions in frost as in clear sum mer-like weather the leech lies constant ly at the bottom ; and in snow as in rainy weather it moves to the very mouth of the phial the top should be covered over v ith a piece of muslin emvix s cloutjiax south boston mass thos christians â€” when the smoke of the battle and the still denser smoke of di plomacy clears away we shall learn some thing of the new status of the turkish christians about which russia and thu en glish iron-clads have manifested so much concern these christians most of them merely nominal comprise no inconsidera ble part of the population ofthe late turk ish empire there were according to the nrost reliable accounts 2,050,000 an ans 1,130.000 greek churchmen 740,000 roman catholics and some 10.000 protest ants or a total ol 3,960,000 in the various parts of the empire they have suffered severely during the war as the provinces in which thev mostly reside have bi en overrun by both armies and the lawless hordes of irregulars attached to the turkish ibr i have inflicted all manner of outrages upon them their usually oppressive taxation has been increased while all busiri â€” h-i in a pretty much destroyed l he :.â€¢. aty :â– amboat magenta wa descending the hudson river i ,-â€¢ week crowded with passengers an old gen le inau was unable to find a ear a young man noticing lai gave the old gentleman his chair and went forward two min utes afterwards the boiler blew up and the old gentleman was killed while the mau who had given up his 6t-at escaped an hut '. chicago tribune karth pclyerizers not the least valuable implement for a farmer or a gardener is a good t 1 - for smoothing and puh-erm.ig field which are to be planted or sown tfl-ofe are several methods of c&isrru&fng sin .. drag but one ofthe simplest is to fake two pi eco , of jofstr each with the front tml beveled like the front ofa sled run ner and then nail on phink across them on the under side letting the pfhn'ks run out by the joists a foot or more the may be of any sfee or weight flesh-able according to the anibmi of team to be used some farmers recommend to nail on two narrow strips npbli hid rice of the plank to collect the'lhmps of soff and drag then along until crushed or until all in equalities in the surfcci are tilled up wereeetiflrivceiveda cur and descrip tion of h pttlveri r with half d .-â€ž or ore cleats naihd upon :!.,- under side of the drag for more th roughly pulverizing and leveling the soil they are nailed on with the outer ends forward of the middle and thus tend to gather ;!â€žâ€¢ soil toward the middle and pfev'enl ridges being let af th sides ofthe dragwheu'in use either of the various styles arc ver useful ia their place and the cos of mak ing one is so small that i very farmer mould have one of his own they are sometimes used foi covering potatoes fodder corn or other crops and maj of ten pay for themselves iii a pin ic d a â€¢â– â– -*â€¢â– (, ti binds clear from stones they may be used at seeding time instead Â« ; a roller for fitting fields for the mowing m , chine or scythe er -' -'â€¢'' ''.' ' ' idea av ihe alleghanies lh re is a spri igso small thai lil ! '--" !; - : ' : â– imi .' da id drain it *â– â€¢'.'â– â– i -' ! als ' â– â– â– ul , isive :..'.., a l "' hills until it spreads onl in o the beautiful < hiio th nee ii a thousand miles leaving on its banks more than r bundn 1 \ ill ges and cities aud many thousand cultivated farms and bearing on its 1 osom more than half a thousand sti amboats then joiniug the mississippi stretches away some 1,500 miles more until it falls iuto the great emblem of eternity !; is oneofthc tributaries of the oceau which obedient only to cod shall roar until the ang i with own fool ou the sea and the other on the laud shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear that time dial be uo ion er so with moral influence !; is a rill a rivuh-t an ocean boundl s and faihom less as eternity yvcxderpul philanthropy a'i.ii bankruptcy after bankrupn is over the wires ; while hope is lying in a thousand breast - â€¢ while all di una i dil and no bow of promi â€¢ pans th '... . , r star of hope is visible abov lhe horizon we are co y told thai o ;, toi eign i redit must be niaintaitie i thi - disii ted philanthropy ihal foi â– . < its own kith and kin and is willing to rob the preseul and the future that the pounft of flesh be delivered is arrogating toitself.powi and privileges of v hich it will yet hi stri and with thongs will be driven fr nu the temple would uot a better way i main tain our credit abroad be have acne at home individual credit -'* te credit then national and foreign credit will come as a matter of course journal of agri culture a tele â– . ii fi nu si . john . florida dated march 31 says captain janes i eads has been here for the pa ! fev a,t -. making an examhial iou of th a view to ascertaining if the channel al the mouth can be improved lie ted a report yesterday . to the stating that with ti e jettj s .... from uvea v to tw nty-four fe l . r can be obtained a a cost of 1,750 governor hampton .- making a genuine ti iumphal journey tiirough ... sta â– of south ' arolina at i ver to u .... vil lage he is receivi i wi nou strations of delight !. olored peopie in some places ha turned out tu greet him at one town .....! . uau i opped in front of tli â€¢ . r d i>e said : â€¢â– â€¢- sin t i ue . \ ou stay â– we s had ti betti . lime nee sou's made : iovi ; uor i .. u v â€¢ had â€¢ efore seiuo tiie two citi ' . h i . determi nud to | i qui iii iau of lee :â– â– i he state of \ irginia milmore is to he tlie si ulptor 1 hi ton papers say thai thi . ue will be ol i.i .,..â€¢â– -.. .;- ... : â– -:â– : iat tile base and jn l i . â– > . - of virgi marble ..... ei â– , - . sculptor.l ..;..]' on the :.. ii -' ar thei ....-.:.-. plan ' .. depth such a i imc ha pened hai company to tea ai j i w.i try iug :.; l - to amuse tin tu wh .... li old daughti : -â– â€¢'- â€¢ '. piped o . ; iug to a b ild i did ' â– â– '. maki i - . â– â– â– head for 1 '